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Stock Coalition Collection on Pond5
cathyslife:
I know they just got paperwork done to become an “official” organization, so maybe it’s in the pipeline.
marthamarks:
--- Quote from: cathyslife on August 14, 2020, 21:19 ---I know they just got paperwork done to become an “official” organization, so maybe it’s in the pipeline.
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As you said: Holy crap, the world is going insane.
cathyslife:
--- Quote from: marthamarks on August 14, 2020, 22:09 ---
--- Quote from: cathyslife on August 14, 2020, 21:19 ---I know they just got paperwork done to become an “official” organization, so maybe it’s in the pipeline.
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As you said: Holy crap, the world is going insane.
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😂
cathyslife:
--- Quote ---This is Pond5’s formal letter to the Stock Coalition:
Dear Members of the Stock Coalition,
Greetings! My name is Greg and I’m the Head of Content at Pond5. To those of you who are unacquainted with me or with Pond5, I want to extend a hearty welcome. We’ve been in close dialogue with your leadership over the last few months and thought the time was right for us to reach out directly and fill you in on some of those discussions.
Pond5 wants to be your agency. We pay the highest royalties in the industry – both for exclusive and non-exclusive content. We allow our contributing artists to set their own prices for their work, and we allow you to opt in or out of the programs that make sense for you. Recently we’ve been actively assisting Coalition members in on-boarding large portfolios with the help of personal Account Managers. We’re bumping your customer service tickets to the top of our inboxes and making sure your content gets prioritized treatment in our curatorial queue.
But we also understand that, as a video-first marketplace, we have work to do to grow our photo and illustration business. Step one, of course, is getting the content, and you’re helping us out with that just fine. Looking ahead, we’ve budgeted out development resources to deliver, over the next several months, improvements to our image experience including a search U/X overhaul, collection clean up and algorithm enhancement, and SEO tweaks that will help boost organic traffic to our photo and illustration pages. This will be coupled with appropriate marketing efforts to effectively “relaunch” our image offering and put us on the map when it comes to stills licensing.
In the even nearer term, we’re working with Coalition leadership to put together a branded collection on our homepage featuring the work of coalition members, and will be looking to feature members’ content as frequently as possible in our social media channels.
Great partnerships are built on communication, so we’re going to be meeting regularly with the Coalition to assure alignment and receive your feedback. In the end, we’re all going to win if we can shift the market towards agencies that pay a fair rate and allow creators the choice to represent their content how they see fit.
If you have any questions, our support lines are open and we’re happy to hear from you. I know we can make great things happen by working together.
All the best,
Greg Andreacchi
Director, Head of Artists & Content
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So no mention of royalties, except that they “pay a fair rate.” As I said earlier, maybe it’s in the pipeline. Good that they are offering help to those with big portfolios, though. It would be nice to see them do well in the image arena, to replace SS.
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